Cooking-stove



(No Model.)

I. DE HAVEN.

COOKING sToVB.

INVENTOR,

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

ISAAC DE HAVEN, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING-STOV.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,255, dated July 1, 1890.

Application led Map2, 1887. Serial No. 236,817. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC DE HAVEN, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, have invented or discovered a certainnew and useful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves,'of which improvement the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to outside shelves for the ovens of cook stoves and ranges; and its object is to enable the shelf to be readily attached to and detached from the stove, as from time to time required, and to be held truly and firmly when Xed in position thereon.

To this end my invention, generally stated, consist-s in the combination, with a side plate having two or more slotted lugs adjacent to its lower end, of an outside shelf having a vertical flange or projection on its inner face adapted to engage the lugs of the side plate.

The improvement claimed is hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a View, in perspective, of a cooking-stove with my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is asimilar view, on an enlarged scale, of the lower portion of the side plate detached; Fig. 3, a similar view of the outside shelf, looking from below, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, on an enlarged scale, through the same.

As heretofore constructed, the outside shelves, used for sustaining articles taken from the ovens of stoves and ranges, have been connected to the sideplates of the same by nuts screwed upon bolts passing through the plate and shelf, such construction involving the objections of expense in fitting and liability of the shelf to sag, work loose, and become detached. A removable outside shelf has also been proposed having hook-shaped lugs at top fitting in ears on the side plate of the stove, and feet or legs resting in grooves in the bottom moldings orledges of the stove, a shelf of this character being a correspondingly heavier and more expensive casting than the ordinary shelves which are bolted on, as above stated. These objections are avoided under my invention, in the practice lof which I east in line upon the outer face of the side plate 1, which forms an outer boundary of the oven, near its lower end and shortly below the desired level of the top of the shelf, two or more lugs or projections 2, each of which is reduced in width at and adjoining the plate l by a slot or recess 3. A vertical [iange or projection Ll is cast upon and flush with the inner side of the outside shelf 5, said flange projecting below the lower side of the shelf and providing abroad bearing for the same against the side plate 1, by which tendency to sagging or rocking is prevented. In order to prevent longitudinal movement of the shelf, slots or recesses 6, of proper width to t easily over the narrow or slotted portions of the lugs 2 of the side plate, are preferably formed in the ange Ll, said slots corresponding in number and relative location with the lugs 2. Two or more vertical brackets 7, the faces of which are in line with the inner face of the shelf, serve to aiford additional bearingsurface on the side plate, and, if desired, the liange 4. may be dispensed with at points other than adjacent to the lugs 2, so that substantially all the bearing may be given by the vertical faces of the brackets 7.

It will be seen that the outside shelf may be readily and conveniently attached to or detached from the side plate bya simple vertical movement, and when connected thereto will be firmly held in position as against any tendency to sag orbecolne loose or to accidental displacement.

I disclaim, broadly, a removable outside shelf as well as a shelf of such character which is connected by hooked lugs to ears on the side plate of the stove and is supported by legs resting upon a bottoxnmolding or ledge.

I claim as my invention and desire lto secure by Letters Patent- The combination, in a cooking stove or range, of a side plate provided with latera1lyslotted lugs, and an outside shelf which is provided with a vertical flange or projection on its inner side, having recesses adapted to engage the narrow or slotted portions of the lugs of the side plate, and verticalfaced brackets adapted to abut against said plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

IsAAe DE HAVEN.-

lVitnesses:

J. SNOWDEN BELL, R. H. WHITTLESEY.

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